Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-12-08
NEWS AND COMMENT.

AOuN'
! Gold has been struck in Montgomery
county, Md.
There are now 55, ,157 Postmasters in
the United States.
Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison died at Win
chester. aged 101.
The official majority against prohibi-
ton at Atlanta is LIS
The Garfield monument was unveiled
in Cincinnati Thursday.
Jacob Sharp has been admitted to
bail in the sum Of $4,000.
The New York Herald has advanced
its price from 2 to 3 cents.
Mrs. Joanna Gilmartin died in Clay
township, Highland county, at the age
Of 105.
Will C. Rowe, defeated candidate for
auditor of Pickaway county, will con-
test the election
The Methodist church reports 81, ,044,
1853 collected for missions in the year
ending November l.
The Iowa Soldiers Home at Marshall
town, was dedicated last week and
opened for occupants
Cincinnati had a S250OOO fire on
Thursday. The Strobridge Lithograph
Company burned out.
1t costs the Schurches of New York
City sbout S25O,000 per year for the
single item Of music
A special meeting Of the National
Turf Congress has been called for Gin
cinnati, on December IA
The stopping of work on the streets
of New York City for the winter throws
5000 men out of employment.
BairdstUwn, in Wood county, claims
the largest gas we'll yet struck. The
flow is $1,000, 900 cubic feet per day.
NJ Yaunt of Xenia, has given $4,000
to Wilberforce university. This is the
largest amount every given to the col
lege.
A bomb was placed on the steps of
Thomas Swearingen's saloon in Wells
vile as warning to go out of the bust
ness.
The circuit court at Hillsboro has de-
cidad that, under the Dow law, liquor
dealers can sell on physicians prescrip-
tiCns.
The convicted wife murderer Roth is
at Columbus and keeps "Blinky" Nor
gan company. Both will be hung the
same day.
The New York Court of Appeals has
reversed the decision of the lower court,
and Jacob Sharp, the boodler, gets a
new trial.
A crank Anarchist, who threatened
to kill President Cleveland, has been
locked up at Lima, o. He will be sent
to an asylum.
Henry Irving performances OF T aust
in New York realized $2,93150, which
will be turned over to the Beecher monu-
ment fund.
San Francisco wants the appropria-
ton for purchasing site for the new
postoffice building increased from $780,,
900 to S65O,OOO
Republican Postmasters have been
thinned out in Ohio, so that there are
not enough of them left to use as pins
for cribbage board.
The Republicans of Cuyahoga county
voted on the direct plan of holding eau
cuses for the nomination of candidates,
and it was adopted.
Samuel Dickey, of Albion, Mich, has
been elected Chairman of the Prohibi-
ton National Committee. The conven-
vention will be held at Indianapolis
Editor Halford, of the many lawsuits
and more wives, ia in Jail at Akron, and
the town is filled with his revengeful
betterhalves waiting to convict him of
bigamy.
The debt statement for November
shows an increase of 81, ,490, $50, mainly
attributed in the opinion of Treasurer
Hyatt to the unusual large pension dis
bursements.
At New Philadelphia, FIVE BARRIERS,
two confectioners and a clother, were
arrested and fined for Sunday work
The arrests were brought about by the
W. c. 7. U.
In Wood county, Ohio, Miss Jennie
Corn was married to Mr. Henry Wheat,
and the church choir convulsed the
wedding guests by singing, 20, What
Will the Harvest Bet"
Mansfield has teacher in her public
schools who yanks pupils out of their
seats by the hair, breaks double states
over their heads and drives them home
with a club when she gets mad.
The -four output of Minneapolis mills
for the past week was 114,SOo barrels,
against LAT, 900 barrels for the previous
week. Twenty mills are shut down on
account of insufficient water power.
Three stables in the central part of
Uhrichsville were burned on Tuesday
night of last week The loss is several |
thousand dollars Frank Mudd, color
ed, was burned to death in one Of the
stables.
c. r. and c. X. Garrison, nephews of
the late Commodore Garrison, were
killed in a Southwestern Missouri mine
They were ascending the tHbe, when
the rope broke precipitating them
140 feet.
1t is estimated that during the COM
ing three months the southern people |
will receive about S275,000,000 in pay
ment fer their cotton crop, of which
amount S150,000,000 will be surplus
available for reinvestment.
At Marietts, Knott Owens was arrest
4 A 1
jury was impaneled and found an indict-
ment, to which he pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to three years in the Ohio
Penitentiary. The whole business was
completed in three days, from the time
of the arrest.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway has been experimenting with
steam heating for passenger trains